Ironically, I only make Google money through YouTube when I'm not a registered user, because when I am I have AdBlock on and it's only when I'm in an incognito mode or different browser/profile that the ads get shown.

So yeah, users not necessarily the most relevant metric there. Which, upon reflection, makes YouTube even more of a steal than it looks in the chart.

Wow, you made a new account just for this?

I think what Give It 100 does is that they take away a lot of the overhead from documenting so that you can focus more on the doing. Like, it lets you be publicly accountable for your progress in a simple and enjoyable way, without needing like... a youtube account?

Thanks! We want to make a native mobile app so it's even easier to upload. Right now it's clunkier than we'd like (especially through web)

Recording, editing and posting the video takes as much (if not more time) than the activity. No?

Did you even watch any of the videos? They're like 10 seconds and not edited. If you're not spending more than 10 seconds on your actual activity... I... don't even.

"The [Waterloo] Region's population was 507,096 as of the 2011 census."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Region

It doesn't really matter what the numbers say. If you have spent any time at all in Waterloo I don't think you would argue that it wasn't a sleepy little Canadian town. And there is nothing wrong with being a sleepy little Canadian town, of course.

If you want to make the challenge even more intense, you can try a service like Beeminder that'll charge you if you don't commit every day. It can hook into Github, I believe.

https://www.beeminder.com/gitminder

The founders actually use this themselves, making a mandatory UVI (user-visible improvement) every day, inspired by pg's advice "startups rarely die mid-keystroke... so keep typing!" See here for more on that: http://blog.beeminder.com/rails/

These are great! I think I've seen Bee Minder before. Honestly, it has helped me out tremendously to just keep committing. I have days where I commit some really trivial bit of code, just to keep things going, but first thing in the morning I'm thinking about what I plan to commit that day. It keeps me focused on my side projects.

Gwern posts articles, but not in blog format. If you look on the sidebar for this page, for example, you'll see it was originally published in 2011, and just recently modified.

This is the closest thing to what you're looking for: http://www.gwern.net/Changelog

Ha, close enough I suppose. Thank you!

Reminds me of this, in board game form: http://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/

See also https://www.scigit.com/

link fails. no https on that site.

huh, both work for me.

This is just how Medium is. Of debatable merit.

Thanks for the info! That's certainly their prerogative, and as long as they provide good content it shouldn't matter too much I guess (it's easy enough for me to fix on my end).

My prior on that is extremely low, so my guess is that's like, of the posts that make front-page? Or of the top posts. What this really reflects, therefore, is something more like how up-votey people are.

Our data was largely from posts that were above 0 Karma which I think is reflected in the analysis that we did.

> "Dogs" occurs more times in titles in r/aww than "cats" or "kittens"

That can be a fact.

> Despite their internet popularity cats are not submitted nearly as many times on this cuddly SubReddit.

Or dogs are rare enough that they're worth naming, because cats are default. Seriously, run whatever calculations you want, but be careful about what conclusions you draw from the numbers.

Yeah, there are probably more cat pictures just in the "If I fits, I sits" category, than dogs altogether

Good point. We like to stir the pot a bit though.

So you're knowingly misrepresenting the data?

Nobody skews cat data on the internet and gets away with it.

What do you mean by "stir the pot"? The purpose of this site seems to be data-driven analysis of reddit. If the conclusions being drawn aren't rooted in that data, I don't see the point.

By purposefully lying?